Memorial Day Quotes
This page is assembled from three others: War, Death and Gratitude. There is no memorial collection underneath it. One poem is filed against the day itself, Joyce Kilmer’s, in Trees and Other Poems (1914), and it opens with a bugle that, he says, is not singing of war today.
The rest is whatever the three source pages rate highest, so it leans toward poetry and toward writers who saw war up close. Several famous lines about death and sacrifice carry flags here, so read the note on a quote’s own page before you attach a name to it.
Those who start wars never fight them, and those who fight wars never like them.
The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
Christian holy war was a dynamic concept which was adjusted for use in different conditions.
Before the war [World War I] the anti-Semitic movement was of no political importance in Germany.
Australians have a right to know, the basis upon which Australia went to war in Iraq.